There’s been a lot of buzz in air travel circles about VLJs lately.
In this instance the phrase air travel circles is meant to apply […]

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In the second part of his drinking travels in the state of Kansas, Kansas City walker Scoot and his pal went to Chapman, KS, where […]

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In fairness the author preferred the Kansas City Irish Pub to the Claddagh Irish Pub in Pittsburgh, PA, but still, I wonder where he was […]

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Courtesy of the four major search engines - yes Google is not the only orange - here’s just a sampling of some of the questions […]

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Customer service champion, the Irish airline RyanAir, is the inspiration for the US launch of SkyBus Airlines in the US. Kansas City is on the […]

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Directions from Kansas City, Missouri to Dublin, Ireland.
Because sometimes I forget the way home.
Google maps sends me to Massachussetts, and then suggests I […]

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Do you remember young Stephanie from Kansas?
Well of late in Ireland Stephanie has been getting around. Killarney, Bantry, and the North. And she’s been […]

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Hosting Tourists
Before I moved to the US, hosting tourists in Ireland is something I did my fair share of. Actually I think I did more […]

Read: Ireland & USA Little Differences #22: Hosting Tourists »

Camping Without a Tent
I’ve been invited to go camping here in the middle of America next month. I know what this means.
It doesn’t mean […]

Read: Ireland & USA Little Differences #21: Camping Without a Tent »

Great slogan. Maybe some town or county has already used it. I could see it being employed by Rosslare, Shannon, Belfast, Dublin, Dun Laoghaire, Cork. […]

Read: Maynooth, Ireland Begins Here »

This is the index to all the posts in my Bicycle Trip Across America story.
In the summer of 1996 I flew from Ireland with my […]

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In summer of 1992, shortly after emaciated men appeared behind wires, I cycled into a Serbia under international embargo. Western Romania had proved difficult alone […]

Read: Missing Ireland via Sweden and Barcelona »

John Warner, professor emeritus at West Virginia Wesleyan College, in yesterday’s Charlston Gazette is guessing that you:
know not one darned thing about how the […]

Read: The US Should Care About National Public Transportation? »

Stephanie is from Kansas. Just before Christmas she started to chronicle her travels in Ireland.
Based in Cork she’s coping without wireless (wirelessless?), without central […]

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In what he says “could be the ultimate document of Midwestern baby boomer saturnalia and catharsis”, Pitch Music Editor Jason Harper ponders Kansas City film-maker […]

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Q. What is it like to drive on the left-hand side of the road?
A. I hate cars. Everything about them. I couldn’t even tell you […]

Read: FAIQ #20: What’s it like driving on the left-hand side? »

Colorado’s Irish Western Rockish Band The Indulgers who had a, ahem, brief pause there before Thanksgiving, roared back with an announcement of a tour of […]

Read: The Indulgers Ireland Tour 2007 »

Beehive Hut
12″ x 16″
Available as print only. Prices start from $25.47

Here’s a painting of a Beehive Hut - Clochán - on the Dingle peninsula in […]

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We’ve mentioned before that Irish KC is not a continuous narrative, but a ball of wool - Irish of course - you’d be mad to […]

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New York’s Black 47 - last seen in Kansas City in September - are now back from their trip to Ireland with a bunch of […]

Read: Black 47 Ireland Tour Photos »